Only two went into RNZAF service. both were written off after.

Yes, and the remains of one went on to become a caravan. Probably quite a large caravan in its day.

Box Brownie, yes please. Cheers eeryone else, interesting stuff about this bizarre plane.

And according to this page, a mock Vulcan used for the underwater scenes is still there! I had assumed it was a in a tank but it’s the ocean.
http://www.divernet.com/wrecks/1101planes.htm

Actually I’m really surprised some enterprising nerk hasn’t created a James Bond museum, with a collection of the planes, cars, costumes, props and Madaem Tussaud-style dummies of all the goodies and baddies. That would be cool.

What was that special chopper stolen from the ship in a recent Brosnan one? Was it a Eurocopter of some sort?

How about that Vulcan, is that one in a museum?

Where is that preserved? I thought the owner had crashed it.

There were, looking back at the older films, some really interesting and historic aircraft used over the years.

I believe that the final airframes were cleared in the very early 1970’s. Some survived – the Old Stick and Rudder Company Corsair and P40E (both ex-OFMC) were rescued from there about then for Motat by some aviation enthusiats, as were the John Chambers P40’s (one now flying with Col Pay in Aussie) and one or two others.

I think in all five P40’s and the Corsair, plus the RB34 Ventura at Motat are the major survivors from the 1970’s. Compomnents were apparently still being melted down in the 1980’s and 1990’s by someone. I have been told that the scrap business passed in the 1960’s to Asplins, who moved the remaining aircraft across the road by their garage where Josephine (the Corsair) was made a gate guard for some years. I’ll ask John to confirm all this.

Dad said he went out there once (it’s only a few minutes from Cambridge) and did some work for a bit with them. He said he recalls helping to heave large chunks of Corsairs into the furnace, and it was breaking his heart even then. He’d grown up right next to Ardmore, our main Corsair base, during and after the war so he was quite attached to the type. He said one of the bosses turned round to him at the end of it all and thanked him for his help. He said “See that Avenger over there,” – there was one sitting in the yard, wings folded – Dad said yes – “If you want it, it’s yours, for your troubles.” Dad says he turned round and said “What the h*ll would I want with one of those.” He’s regretted it a lot these many years since. If only he’d towed it to his parent’s farm 10km away……. doh!